Pausing Run while on activity mode on the Fitbit Sense

[misseefit]

Is there a better / quicker way to pause and end a run? When out running, especially with colder weather and gloves, the swipe up feature to manually pause and end your run is not too friendly. It doesn’t recognize the swipe action on the first (and sometimes second or third) try. It would be preferable to have a pause/end button on the first screen so that two actions are not required to stop a run. 

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[Mike_Croy]

Running, and many other activities, have an auto pause option. Maybe this may help you. Swipe up in the running app to select this option.

[Rich_Laue · Accepted solution]

Try tapping the back button. 

[misseefit]

That works! Thank you!

[Mike_Croy]

@Rich_Laue - could you please explain? As far as I know, pressing the button will take you back to the clock face.

[Rich_Laue]

While in exercise mode, and recording the exercise, tapping the button brings up the same screen as a swipe up does..

If you had tried you would have noticed. 

Tapping the button does not bring the user back to the clock from every screen. 

[Mike_Croy]

@Rich_Laue - thanks for providing the explanation that I asked for. I see now that in some applications the pressing the button will indeed bring up another screen. In  other applications, e.g. today and settings, pressing the button takes you directly back to te clock and not back one menu level - for this a swipe to the right is required.

[kow]

Completely true. Especially if one is training and when each second matters, fiddling to swipe up to pause is so frustrating. Fitbit Ionic had the pause directly on the screen and lack of this feature in Sense is really annoying. Auto pause has its own troubles of not working properly

[kow]

The surface area of the back button is very small and instead of being an actual button Its a frustrating functionality. More than half the time, when I try to use the back "button" it doesn't recognize the action

[Spudinthemud]

Having just got the sense, I'm having the same issues and I see from numerous reviews of this product, it is not recommended for runners as no quick easy way to stop a run. Why don't Fitbit make it like the ionic so option to stop on first screen rather than having to swipe down? Button location and functionality so useless I spent about 4 attempts trying to stop a run. If this was a race it would be highly frustrating. It seems Fitbit can do a simple software fix surely?

[Gordopolis]

Totally agree with the issue here - I spent 20+ seconds fiddling to try to pause my run at a traffic junction this morning - absolutely threw me out mentally. It's a massive design oversight to make a fitness watch with so many bells and whistles but to bury one of the most fundamental features under a series of clumsy swipes and presses.

@Rich_Laue Can you elaborate please on what you mean by the back button? On my running watch face there is nothing like this.
All I have is:
Distance run

Stats (heart rate, steps etc which cycle if I swipe left or right)

Time elapsed

[t.parker]

@Gordopolis to pause just press the button (kind of press, the button on the side of the watch). I agree that it may get frustrating especially when watch has to still wake up. If the watch didn't wake up then the first press will wake it up so you need to press the button again to pause.

[Gordopolis]

Thanks @t.parker - I wish they had stuck with a mechanical button on this device as the side press is really awkward to get right

[t.parker]

@Gordopolis I'm with you on that. I strongly dislike that embedded button. Also, I find only one button is just not enough for sports use-cases. For example, I want to mark lap manually then I need to wake up watch (with button or wrist - it may or may not wake up instantly, usually it takes me 2-3 attempts), and then while running I need to tap a tiny icon on top of the screen. When I finally manage to tap it, I'm way further than my manual lap should be marked. It would be so much easier with a physical button.